... of the Chair. It is well to contrast the action of the Whigs in 1835 on the occa- sion of the contest next preceding that of 1839. Sir Robert Peel was then the Leader of the House, and the Whigs, led by Lord John Russell, nominated Mr. Abercromby in ...

... Tory Party, and encouraged a hope among the Whigs that they were about to de- tach from the other side the ultimate head of the house which had for generations been a sup- porter of Conservatism. The Whigs, however, were premature — it took 25 years more ...

... ; but Sir Robert «i«- able to take a cominacdiug position before tiie country, ai.i form a par'y strong enough to hold the Whigs in cheek, jc to., weak to prevent their returning to office. Disraeli, tiio.ic/h lie never much liked Peel, hail found by this ...

... frustrated without great difficulty, and when we remember the well-known Stuart pro- clivities of Queen Anne, the weakness of the Whigs in the Commons, and the unpopularity of the Ger- man Electoral Dynasty in England, we cannot help wondering that the Hanoverian ...

... Ghibelline. The parties themselves were of much older date, and the two terms may be said to have been in the Middle Ayes what Whig and Tory were in English history. The author thus discloses the political aspect of Tuscany about the middle of the 13th century ...

... like to treat with trade unions. But could they turn the clock back 2s years * I Such a defence could not be listened to. The Whig and I the Tory parties had both legislated for aud legalised trade unions, wuich were the only means by which the men could ...

... Westminster and Vauxhall Bridges, and was stilt the town resilience of the Grosvenors. Like most of the youthful scions of the Whig aristocracy, he received his early education at Westminster School, which wa3 then under the headmastership of Dr. William ...

... the Noel Tins. W e fi n d t h e Earl of Rutland's advancement l » Dukedom spoken of in 1689, and in 1702 he had, through Whig influence, actually obtained the X -mi-e of that honour. A letter from his daughter- ' kiw, thanking William 111. for his ...

... Loch Leven would not rise to the fly. That fact bears witness only to the dulness of modern perception. It was by a certain Whig roijue in Edinburgh, who thought that the Crown would be more becoming if it were clapped on his own earnest and preposterous ...

... lll.'s reign, the popular representative of Yorkshire in the House of Commons, and perhaps the most esteemed member of the Whig Party of his ...

... Authorised Version published in 1611 and 1612, so called on account of mistakes in the third chapter of Ruth. There is the Whig Bible, a second edition of the Geneva version, with Blessed are the place- makers, instead of peacemakers, in the seventh ...

... sight, how a man's thoughts come back to him, how dully they cling to him, c.iwerii; like buds iv the rain, and ouly ou the whig agaiu when the land fleams blue ahead. But riiose are ouly reflections iv a fog, and have but that to excuse their presence ...